Tito to Get Bid From Ike Despite Protests
Washington reports President Eisenhower may invite Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia to visit the United States at Easter. Protests mount in Congress and from Catholic groups over Tito’s dictatorship and Cardinal Stepinac’s imprisonment. A decision on lifting a ban on Yugoslav jet fighters is expected later this month.
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Yugoslavia
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Tito
Alvin O'Kenski
Wisconsin
Capitol Hill
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Knights of Columbus
Dulles
Cardinal Stepinac
Connecticut Faces Skilled Labor Shortage in 1957
The state grapples with a growing demand for skilled workers as schools fail to produce enough qualified graduates. Executives foresee tougher employment challenges and plan to expand career opportunities for determined individuals, with emphasis on talent, training, and practical experience to drive progress.
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Connecticut
Revere
Subsidies dominate federal budget reach to $71.8 billion
The article notes subsidies total $13 billion last year and will rise in the new budget. It highlights veterans’ benefits at 4.7 billion, foreign aid at 4.1 billion, farm price supports at 1.7 billion, and aid to the needy at 1.5 billion. It traces subsidies to taxpayers, via income and hidden taxes, as a long-standing practice.
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Congress
National Highway Building Plan Expands Across the Nation
The national highway program, costing at least fifty billion dollars before 1972, is under way and described as the largest public road project in history. It will influence business, industry, and daily life, creating vast employment and supply needs while linking cities and opening new economic contacts nationwide. Secretary Sinclair Weeks noted 491 miles contracted for 260 million dollars and proposals totaling four billion dollars to date.
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Sinclair Weeks
Senate Public Works
Lawmakers debate pace of minor district court reform
The Hartford discussion cites Rep. Frederick Pope Jr. urging slow action on district court plans. He notes past defeats and tests in large cities, while critics say repeated postponement shields patronage. The column argues for Honest reform and questions the legislature’s reluctance to act.
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Hartford
Frederick Pope, Jr
House
United Press
House of the Senate
Wilbur L. Cross
Rep. Pope
Government action debated as recession threat grows
Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey challenges the notion that emergency government spending will counter a downturn. He argues against tax cuts and deficits as cures, insisting inflation and debt rise with spending. Business leaders weigh whether higher government spending or spending restraint best guards profits and growth.
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Humphrey
Treasury
Knowland Nixon pairing eyed as 1960 strategy unfolds
The column discusses Senator Knowland and Vice President Nixon possibly allying to influence 1960 politics, with California Governor Knight as a potential obstacle. It notes Knowland’s age, the Ike succession dynamic, and the possibility he could defer a 1960 bid to favor Nixon, while England’s general election rules are explained in the response.
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Hillcrest Place
Chevy Chase
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Senate
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Earl Warren
Knight
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Harold Mac
Mitlaw
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Boston
White House
Air Force rounds world with H bomber flight show of force
AP analysts discuss U S Air Force nonstop flight around the world to demonstrate capabilities amid Middle East tensions. The mission included a simulated bombing run and refueling points cited in Morocco and Dhahran, signaling readiness to defend Middle Eastern allies.
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Middle East
U. S. Air Force
Wiece Acae
Asia
Russia
Air Force
Morocco
Dhahran
Pentagon
Guam
U.S. Air Force
North American
Middle Eastern
Red China
VA program curtailment sparks calls for mortgage rate reform
Joseph B. Haverstick of the National Association of Home Builders warns that sharply higher GI mortgage rates threaten veterans housing as FHA and other rates lag. A separate quote from Colum Okie Zee superintendent Earl Davis describes a captive gorilla birth claim as critical to animal care.
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FHA
Joseph B. Haverstick
The
National Associa
Colum Okie Zee
Earl Davis
Mayor cancels plans for unity dinner by Bridgeport Socialists
Bridgeport Socialist group led by Mayor McLevy cancels a New York unity dinner after learning principal speaker Hugh Gaitskell will not attend. The event, under the Socialist party and Social Democratic federation, had drawn plans despite unclear ties of Connecticut Socialists to the national bodies.
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Bridgeport
McLevy
New York City
Socialist Party
Social Democratic Federation
Hugh Gaitskell
Labor Party
England
Port
Gaitskell
Connecticut Socialist Party
Connecticut
National Party
Nationa’l
Budget Grumbling Over 72 Billion in Administration Plans
Overseas Outlook notes bipartisan concern that a $72 billion budget may strain taxpayers in a wealthy nation. Critics warn high direct and indirect taxes plus debt threaten living standards, warning of a credit-fueled economy and rising costs even as defense spending remains essential.
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Houses of
Congress
America
Alcorn Faces Connecticut Governor Ambition Versus National Chair Hope
The piece weighs Meade Alcorn’s dual aim of becoming Connecticut governor in 1958 and possibly winning a Republican national chair in 1958 1960. It argues his strengths suit a national post while his heart is set on the state governorship, with a cautious view of fate favoring the national path over a local bid.
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Meade Alcorn
Republicn
Connecticut
Alcorn
National Post
Republican Party
Homer S. Cummings
Connecticut House of Representatives
Meyner to wed Helen Stevenson at Oberlin ceremony
New Jersey governor Robert Baumler Meyner, aged 37, and Mrs Helen Day Stevenson prepared for their wedding at Oberlin Ohio today. Stevenson, president of Oberlin College for ten years, will marry tomorrow afternoon after a rehearsal and wedding supper. They met at Cleveland Hopkins airport and traveled to the Stevenson home.
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Oberlin
Ohio
New Jersey
Robert Baumle Meyner
Helen Day Stevenson
Cleveland Hopkins
William E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Oberlin College
Newlyweds to Depart Cleveland for Barbados Moon in Barbados
The newlyweds will leave Cleveland Hopkins Airport at 8 30 p.m. tomorrow by chartered plane. They head to the British West Indies for a honeymoon in Barbados aboard a private flight.
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Cleveland Hopkins
British West Indies
Barbados
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